Black Lake (Holland) Harbor.

Grand River (Grand Haven Harbor).

Clinton River.

St. Clair

flats.

River Raisin (Monroe Harbor).

Steam dredge on Lake Michi

gan.

Sandusky Harbor.

Black River (Lorain Har

bor).

Cleveland.

Fairport, Ohio.

Ashtabula.

Erie, Pa.

Dunkirk.

Buffalo.

Steam dredge on Lake Erie.

Oak Orchard Creek Harbor.

Genesee River (Char

For the improvement of Black Lake harbor, Michigan, eight thousand dollars.

For the preservation of the harbor at the mouth of Grand River, Michigan, two thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the harbor at the mouth of Clinton River, Michigan, five thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the navigation of the Saint Clair Flats, connecting the upper and lower lakes, twenty thousand dollars.

For completing the improvement of the River Raisin harbor, Michigan, fourteen thousand dollars.

For constructing a steam-dredge, equipment and discharging scows for Lake Michigan, twenty thousand dollars.

For preserving the harbor of Sandusky city, and improving the same, fifteen thousand dollars.

For continuing the improvement of the harbor at the mouth of Black River, on Lake Erie, Ohio, five thousand dollars.

For continuing the improvement of the harbor of Cleveland, Ohio, thirty thousand dollars.

For the further improvement of the harbor of Fairport, at the mouth of Grand River, Ohio, ten thousand dollars. For continuing the improvement of the harbor of Ashtabula, Ohio, ten thousand dollars.

For continuing the improvement of the harbor of Erie, Pennsylvania, thirty thousand dollars.

For continuing the improvement of the harbor of Dunkirk, New York, thirty thousand dollars.

For repairing the sea-wall at the harbor of Buffalo, New York, fourteen thousand dollars.

For constructing a steam-dredge, equipment and discharging scows for Lake Erie, twenty thousand dollars. For continuing the improvement of the harbor of Oak Orchard Creek, Lake Ontario, New York, ten thousand five hundred dollars.

For continuing the removal of obstructions in the harlotte Harbor). bor at the mouth of the Genesee River, Lake Ontario, New York, twenty thousand dollars.

Little Sodus

Bay.

Oswego.

Steam dredge on Lake Ontario.

Rappahannock River.

Taunton River and New

For the improvement of the harbor of Sodus Bay["], Lake Ontario, Cayuga county, New York, ten thousand dollars.

For continuing the improvement of the harbor of Oswego, Lake Ontario, New York, forty thousand dollars. For constructing a steam-dredge, equipment, and discharging scows for Lake Ontario, twenty thousand dollars. For a survey of the Rappahannock River, Virginia, three thousand dollars.

For a survey of Taunton River and New Bedford harBedford Har- bor, Massachusetts, three thousand dollars.

bor.

a Refers to Little Sodus Bay.

For improving the Kennebeck River from the United States Arsenal wharf, in Augusta, Maine, to Lovejoy's Narrows, six thousand dollars.

For a survey of San Antonio River, Texas, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For surveys of the harbors at Sabine, Galveston, Paso Cavallo, Velasco, Brazos de Santiago, and Corpus Christi, and the rivers Sabine, Brazos, and Trinity, Texas, five thousand dollars.

For repairing the public works at Little Egg Harbor,
New Jersey, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For a survey of East Pascagoula River, Mississippi,
five thousand dollars.

For a survey of Providence harbor, Rhode Island, fifteen hundred dollars.

Kennebec

River.

San Antonic River.

Harbors in Texas.

Little Egg

Harbor.

East Pasca

goula River.

Providence.

Falls of the

Board to be

For a survey and examination of the falls of the Ohio Survey of River, by a board of topographical and civil engineers to Ohio. be appointed by the Secretary of War, to report upon constituted the expediency of an additional canal around said falls, and to report. and the comparative cost, advantages, and disadvantages of making such additional canal on the Kentucky and Indiana shores of said river respectively, and also the cost, advantages, and disadvantages of enlarging and extending the present canal so as to avoid the rocks at Sandy Island; retaining the present locks in their present condition, five thousand dollars.

For the repair of the sea-wall at Marblehead, Massachusetts, five hundred dollars.

For a survey of the harbor of Georgetown, South Carolina, three thousand dollars.

For a survey of Shrewsbury River, New Jersey, fifteen hundred dollars.

For repairing the piers at Kennebunk, Maine, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For a breakwater at Owlshead harbor, or at Rockland harbor, in Maine, as the Department of War shall decide, fifteen thousand dollars.

Marblehead.

S. C.

Georgetown,

Shrewsbury

Kennebunk.

River.

Breakwater in Maine.

For the further removal of obstructions and the im- Dubuque. provement of the harbor of Dubuque, Iowa, fifteen thou

sand dollars.

For repairing the piers in Great Sodus Bay, New York, Great Sodus ten thousand dollars.

Bay.

Cape Fear River.

For improving Cape Fear River at and below Wilmington, North Carolina, twenty thousand dollars. For repairing the piers at Huron River harbor, Ohio, Huron River. ten thousand dollars.

For continuing and repairing the breakwater at Burlington, Vermont, ten thousand dollars.

For repairing the piers at Conneaught, Ohio, ten thousand dollars.

For repairing the piers and for improving the harbor at New Castle, Delaware, fifteen thousand dollars.

Burlington,

Vt.

Conneaut,

Ohio.

Newcastle,

Del.

Bridgeport,

Conn.

St. Johns River, Fla.

Ship canal across Florida.

Newark Bay.

Levee across the San Diego.

Ogdensburg.

Steam dredge on Lake Champlain.

Miscellane

ous.

Tennessee and Illinois rivers.

Ill.

For the further improvement of the harbor at Bridgeport, Connecticut, ten thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the river Saint John, Florida, ten thousand dollars.

For the completion of the old line of survey, or new line, as may be deemed expedient, for a ship canal across the peninsula of Florida, twenty thousand dollars.

For a survey of the sand bars in Newark Bay, New Jersey, two thousand dollars.

For building a levee across the mouth of the river San Diego, in the State of California, to turn it into its former channel, into False Bay, thirty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. For a survey of the harbor of Ogdensburg, New York, with reference to its improvement, three thousand dollars. For constructing a steam-dredge, equipment, and discharging scows for Lake Champlain, and improving the navigation thereof, twenty thousand dollars.

For connecting the waters of the Indian River, and Mosquito lagoon, at the Haulover, Florida, five thousand dollars.

For the repairs, preservation, and contingencies of the harbor works on the Atlantic coast, ten thousand dollars.

For repairs and contingencies of harbors and rivers and to meet charges for transportation of officers and for fuel and quarters, the payment of which is no longer made by the Quartermaster's Department, and for extra allowance to meet extra expenses under the special direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the navigation of the Tennessee River, fifty thousand dollars, in conformity with the 1860, c. 114. estimates of the War Department of the thirteenth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and for the improvement of the navigation of the Illinois River, the sum of thirty thousand dollars.

Waukegan,

Surveys in Georgia.

St. Augustine

For the improvement of the harbor and breakwater at Waukegan, Illinois, fifteen thousand dollars.

That the Secretary of War cause to be examined and surveyed the rivers Savannah, from the city of Savannah, as high up as the city of Augusta, the Ockmulgee up to Macon, and the Flint up to Albany, and the Chattahoochee up to Columbus, in the State of Georgia, and to report to Congress the amount of money which may remove any obstructions to navigation, and that the sum of ten thousand dollars be appropriated for that purpose.

For filling in behind the United States sea-wall in the harbor of St. Augustine, Florida, with earth, three thousand dollars.

Approved, August 30, 1852.

CHAP. 110.-An Act Making appropriations for the support of Aug. 31, 1852. the Army, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand Vol. 10, p. 105. eight hundred and fifty-three.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

Mississippi

For continuing the topographical and hydrographical Survey of survey of the Delta of the Mississippi, with such investi- Delta. gations as may lead to determine the most practicable plan for securing it from inundation, fifty thousand dollars.

*

Approved, August 31, 1852.

[No. 3.] A Resolution Explanatory of the Act appropriating Jan. 7, 1853. money for the removal of the raft of Red River.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors and rivers," approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, as relates to Red River, be so construed as to authorize the Secretary of War to award the contract for the removal of obstructions to the navigation of said river occasioned by the Raft, to the person or persons who, for the amount of the appropriation, will agree to remove said obstructions, and keep said navigation free from the same for the longest period of time; said contract to be awarded after reasonable public notice.

Approved, January 7, 1853.

Vol. 10, p. 260.

Removal of Red River raft.

$5.

1852, c. 104.

1854, c. 267,

[No. 8.] A Resolution Explanatory of the appropriation for the Jan. 20, 1853. improvement of the mouth of the Sekonk River and harbor of Vol. 10, p. 261. Providence, Rhode Island.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of

obstructions in

1852, c. 104.

the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Removal of the clause in the "Act making appropriations for the im- Seekonk (Pawprovement of certain harbors and rivers," approved thir- tucket) River. tieth of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, making Act Aug. 30, an appropriation "for removing a rock near the mouth of the Sekonk River [], harbor of Providence, Rhode Island," be construed to authorize the removal of any rock or other obstructions at the crook or the entrance or mouth of Sekonk River, harbor of Providence, and State of Rhode Island.

Approved, January 20, 1853.

The records of this office credit the appropriation for this item to Providence River.

Mar. 3, 1853. Vol. 10, p. 181

Genesee River (Char

CHAP. 96.-An Act To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:

For improvement of the Genesee River, one hundred

lotte Harbor). and seventy-six dollars and ten cents.

Cleveland.

Buffalo

Creek.

Ashtabula.

Milwaukee.

For removing obstructions at harbor of Cleveland, Ohio, one hundred and forty-five dollars and sixty-nine cents. For sea-wall at Buffalo Creek, three hundred and fortynine dollars and five cents.

For harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio, forty-two dollars and sixty-four cents.

For harbor at Milwaukie, Wisconsin, one hundred and sixty-three dollars and ninety-four cents.

Approved, March 3, 1853.

Mar. 3, 1853.

CHAP. 97.-An Act Making appropriations for the civil and Vol. 10, p. 189. diplomatic expenses of Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.

Survey of communica tion between Lake Huron

and the falls of St. Marys River, Mich.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be and are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects bereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, namely:

For continuing the survey of the northern and northwestern lakes, including Lake Superior, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That a survey of so much of the communication between Lake Huron and the Sault Ste. Marie as may be necessary to ascertain what part thereof requires to be deepened, shall be made without delay, and plans and estimates of the nature and expense of the work shall be laid before Congress at its next session.

Approved, March 3, 1853.